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APPLICATION FILED APR.23| 1909.

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WINFIELD HANCOCK YOST, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA, ASSIGNOR TO ROGER BALLAST CAR COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVINFIELD HANCOCK Yos'r, of the city of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada, mechanical engineer, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates particularly to hopper bottom cars of the convertible type, and it may be said briefly to consist of the devices and combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims. For full comprehension,

however, of my invention reference must be had to the accompanying drawings in which similar reference characters indicate the same parts and wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved car partly in vertical sectional view taken on line A A Fig. 2; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the car partly in horizontal section taken on line B B Fig. 1; Figs. 3 and 4 are transverse vertical sectional views taken on line C C Fig. 1 and D D Fig. 2 respectively; Fig. 5 is an end elevation; Fig. 6 is a detail sectional view of the hinged connection between the hopper door and frame-work of the car; Fig. 7 is a perspective view illustrating particularly my improved draft sills, bolster, end walls, rigid hopper frame supported by the draft sills and the strap for supporting the end walls; Fig. 8 is a horizontal sectional view ofthe junction of one of the draft sills, such view being taken through webs of such member looking up.

The car is provided with movable end walls I) and sidewall standards 0. Disposed between the wall standards a hinged at the top to longitudinal beams (Z, are out wardly swinging vertical doors 6 and the floor f of the car is provided with horizontal upwardly swinging doors g-hinged at their outer sides to longitudinal sills 50 and 51. When, to change a gondola to a hopper bottom car, the doors 9 are raised and swung over to open position, the upper edges thereof fit into coinciding notches h and h in the vertical doors 6 and standards 0 respectively in which position they form inclined floors for directing the material in the car into a central hopper extending longitudinally the greater portion of the car body. This hopper is formed by inclined end walls j, an inclined side wall is, and a downwardly Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Au 1, 1916.

Application filed April 23, 1909. Serial No. 491,861.

swinging door, Z, hinged at m to the sill 50 and operated by the usual shaft 24 and chain '0.

Disposed adjacent to the ends of the doors Z are horizontal members 0 set on edge and constituting vertical walls, the upper sides whereof are inclined to form a support for the lIlOllIlGCl end walls j of the hopper, (as shown in Fig. 1) such walls 0 having one end 9 formed at an angle (see Figs. 3 and 5 coinciding with the angle of the inclined slde wall Z0, and being supported by straps r secured as at s and s to the sills 51 and 50, such straps also supporting a pair of beams s and s the former being inclosed by a strap f fastened at its endsto the strap 1" while the latter is bolted as at s to the strap 1', these beams constituting nailing pleces for the inclined side wall 70. These wall members 0 are of a length to extend from the wall is to a point beyond the door Z when in open position. These walls 0 support the bottom of the ends walls j and prevent the material being dumped escaping around the ends of the doorsuch walls also actlng as additional guides for the material while being dumped and they strengthen carried by such draft sills and fastened to the ends of the beams s with which they constitute the rigid framing of the hopper; each of such draft sills being recessed to receive the end sill and dead-wood and thus present a shoulder 6 which receives the buffing strains from the dead-wood and end sill while additional supports for the deadwoods and end sills are provided by angle plates 70 riveted to the top of the draft sills near their outer ends. These shoulders are augmented by flanged gussets 7secured thereto and to the end sills, while the draft sills being extended to and partially supporting the end walls y of the hopper reinforce such hopper which is particularly useful in withstanding the impact of heavy masses as when loading is being commenced.

A pair of transverse body bolsters 10 are located near the opposite ends of the car and are built around the continuous draft sills a, and secured to the latter by extensions of the vertical webs of the bolsters and by angle plates 12 all arranged in such a manner as to receive the strains from the draft sills and transmit them to the longitudinal sills of the car.

This general construction presents means for a more direct transmission of the shocks and strains incidental to the handling of freight cars, from the dead woods, end sills, and the hopper walls, where said shocks are received, to the entire framework of the car, thus prolonging the life of the latter.

What I claim is as follows:

1. In a hopper bottom car, the combination with the body thereof, a hopper formed therein provided with a downwardly opening door, of a pair of rigid members fixed to the car body adjacent to the ends of said door, said rigid members constituting Walls extending between the limits of travel of said door, substantially as described.

2. In a hopper bottom car, the combination with the body thereof having a hopper formed therein, said hopper being provided with a downwardly opening door, of a pair of rigid members fixed to the body of said car and supportin the end walls of said hopper, such members forming walls extending between the limits of travel of said door at the ends thereof.

3. In a hopper bottom car, the combination with the body thereof having a hopper therein, said hopper being-provided with in clined end walls, a fixed side wall, and a movable side wall constituting a door for said hopper, and rigid members supporting said end walls and located at the ends of said side walls, each of said rigid members constituting a wall extending from aid fixed side wall to the limit of opening movement of said movable wall.

4. In a hopper bottom ear, the combination with the body thereof having a hopper therein, said hopper being provided with inclined end Walls, a fixed side wall, and a movable side wall constituting a door for said hopper, rigid members supporting said end walls and located at the ends of said side walls, each of said rigid members constituting a wall extending from said fixed side wall-to the limit of opening movement of said movable wall, and means to secure said rigid members to said car frame.

5. In a hopper bottom car, the combination with the body thereof having a hopper therein, said hopper being provided with inclined end walls, a fixed side wall, and a movable side wall constituting a door for said hopper, rigid members supporting said end Walls and located at the ends of said side Walls, each of said rigid members constituting a wall extending from said fixed side wall to the limit of opening movement of said movable wall, and a pair of straps, each of said straps being fastened to the under-side of one of said rigid members and having its ends secured to the frame of said CZLI.

6. In a hopper bottom car, the combination with the body thereof, longitudinal sills, a hopper located between said sills and comprising a pair of inclined end walls, a fixed inclined side wall, and a movable inclined side wall constituting a door for said hopper, a rigid member located at each end of said side walls secured to and supporting said inclined end walls, each of said members extending from said fixed side wall to the limit of opening travel of said movable wall, said rigid members being secured to said longitudinal sills.

7. In a hopper bottom car, the combina tion with the body thereof, longitudinal sills, a hopper located between said sills and comprising a pair of inclined end walls, a fixed inclined side wall, a movable inclined side wall constituting a door for said hopper, a rigid member located at each end of said side walls secured to and supporting said inclined end walls, each of said members extending from said fixed side wall to a the limit of opening travel of said movable wall, said rigid members being secured to said longitudinal sills, and means comprising straps-secured at their extremities to said sills and secured intermediate their extremities to said rigid members.

8. In a railroad car, the combination with the body thereof having a hopper, a rigid member fixed to the body of the ear and supporting an end wall of said hopper, a transverse body bolster located between such member and the end of the car, a longitudinal draft sill extending continuously from and having an extremity secured to said rigid member to and through the body bolster of said car to the end thereof, and

gusset plates extending between and secured to said body bolster and draft sill serving to secure the former to the latter.

9. In a hopper bottom car, the combination with the body thereof, of a hopper, a cross member supporting an end wall of said hopper, a transverse body bolster located between said cross member and end of said car, an end sill at the end of said car and a draft sill secured to said cross member and extending therefrom continuously through said bolster to said end sill, said draft member being depressed at its end,

said end sill being seated in said depressed portion and secured to said draft sill by an angle.

10. In a car having a longitudinal hopper, a longitudinal supporting beam adjacent the bottom of said hopper, said hopper being provided with a longitudinal inclined side wall fixed to said beam, a movable side wall constituting a downwardly opening door and having its lower edge adjacent said beam when closed, and transverse walls at the ends of said hopper, said walls extending from said fixed side wall to the outward limit of travel of said movable wall.

11. In a car having a longitudinal hopper, a longitudinal supporting beam adjacent the bottom of said hopper, said hopper being provided with a longitudinal inclined side wall fixed to said beam, a movable side wall constituting a downwardly opening door and having its lower edge adjacent said beam when closed, transverse walls at the ends of said hopper, said walls extending from said fixed side wall to the outward limit of travel of said movable wall, and

means to secure said transverse walls and inclined beam to the frame of said can 12. In a car having a longitudinal hopper, said hopper being formed with end walls, an inclined fixed side wall and a movable inclined side wall constituting a door for said hopper, cross members located beneath said end walls, and transverse walls located beneath said cross members and extending from said fixed side wall of said hopper to the limit of opening travel of said movable wall.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WINFIELD HANCOCK YOST.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM P. MOFEAT, FRED J. SEARS.

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